I had an uncle named Tom. An aunt named Robbie. Four cousins I never really got to know. In 1972, they were killed when a bomb destroyed a passenger jet over Vietnam.
When I tell people this, they half don't believe me. I suppose that's fine. Our family just kind of grew up with it.
A Hazy Yellow Feeling is their story. And ours. For what it's worth.
A Field Marshal, his son, and his son's father-in-law — holding the army and the government in the same fist. History calls them the Three Tyrants. When Somchai was arrested, one of them told reporters the punishment should be execution by firing squad. "One bullet may not be enough. It should be eighty-one." Two years later, they change the story to the bombing never happened. That Cathay Pacific made it up. Eighty-one bullets to it never happened. Same family. Same fist. He walks free. Then...
14 Jul 2026
Ep 5-Two Hands
July 25th, 2022. Lake Forest Hospital. A phone rings in a dying man's room. Fifty years earlier, a photograph came out of Vietnam. A little girl, on fire, running down a road. You've seen it. Everyone has. Seven days later, a plane carrying six members of one Wisconsin family went down over that same country. Two uncles flew to Saigon to bring them home. One of them couldn't just sit and wait. He held up his hands. I have two hands, he said. Surgical hands. They let him in. This is Episode 5....
14 Jun 2026
Two And Half Minutes
June 15th, 1972. Twenty-nine thousand feet. Lunch coming down the aisle. It wasn’t quick. The plane came apart and it fell. And most of them were alive for what came next. It took two and a half minutes to reach the ground. Two uncles fly to Saigon. Six caskets come home in July. And in Holy Angels Cemetery, a twenty-two-year-old man stands at the graves of his entire family. This is Episode 4. Two and a Half Minutes. Voice Text Andy If this story is part of your story too — I'd love to h...
30 May 2026
A Hazy Yellow Feeling Trailer
In the summer of 1972 a bomb destroyed a passenger jet over Vietnam. Six members of one Wisconsin family were killed. This is the trailer. Voice Text Andy If this story is part of your story too — I'd love to hear from you. hazyyellowfeeling@gmail.com
24 May 2026
Man Plans. God Laughs.
Bangkok, June 1972. A twenty-nine-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Thai Police walks his fiancée and his seven-year-old daughter onto a Cathay Pacific flight. He makes sure they're seated over the wing. He seats them, and gets off the plane. Under the seat in front of them is a cosmetics case. Inside it, two pounds of explosives. He'd taken out insurance policies on both of them. He thought the plane would go down over open water. The wreckage would sink. No bodies, no fragments, no case. Man...
3 May 2026
The Long Goodbye: The Kenny Family, before.
Before I tell you what happened to them, I want to spend some time letting them be alive again. A son who built a stone wall by the lake and never finished it. A CEO who talked the board into buying a company plane. A mother who kept the snack drawer full and the door unlocked. A girl behind a camera. A boy with a postcard and a joke about an M16. A girl who danced. A thirteen-year-old who'd just had her birthday cake. This is Episode 2. The Long Goodbye. Voice Text Andy If this story is pa...
11 Apr 2026
The Summer of Less Than
In the summer of 1972 a bomb destroyed a passenger jet over Vietnam. Six members of one Wisconsin family were killed. I was seven years old. I grew up in the shadow of it without ever fully understanding what I was living inside. This is Episode 1. The Summer of Less Than. Voice Text Andy If this story is part of your story too — I'd love to hear from you. hazyyellowfeeling@gmail.com
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